World's fishing fleet capacity is "50 to 60 percent" higher than it should be, Sukhdev said.

SHOOT: That's code for the fact that there are more people than fish in the sea. Well, their appetites represent more than the world's fish stocks can provide. People need to go more vegetarian or there needs to be a sharp decrease in the numbers of human beings - our choice.

clipped from news.yahoo.com NEW YORK (AFP) – The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish," Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN Environment Program's green economy initiative, told journalists in New York. Environmental experts are mindful of the failure this March to push through a worldwide ban on trade in bluefin tuna, one of the many species said to be headed for extinction. Powerful lobbying from Japan and other tuna-consuming countries defeated the proposal at the CITES conference on endangered species in Doha. But UNEP's warning Monday was that tuna only symbolizes a much vaster catastrophe, threatening economic, as well as environmental upheaval. One billion people, mostly from poorer countries, rely on fish as their main animal protein source, according to the UN.